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Jo Stevens

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2019-06-05

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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant
to the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254216 on Business Premises: Change of Use,
how many breaches of building regulations resulted in enforcement actions for houses
converted under permitted development rights.

<p>The Department does not collect information about enforcement activity. Compliance
with Building Regulations’ requirements will be checked by the relevant building control
body. They may require changes to the building work to be made by the person responsible
for the work, to ensure compliance without the need for formal enforcement action.</p><p>
</p><p> </p>

<p>The sums my Department has spent on legal representation for the Government at
inquests in each of the last ten calendar years are set out below.</p><p>2009 £2,742,878.88</p><p>2010
£2,454,272.31</p><p>2011 £2,573,967.95</p><p>2012 £2,292,076.76</p><p>2013 £2,861,681.67</p><p>2014
£2,806,249.30</p><p>2015 £2,947,851.78</p><p>2016 £3,568,044.30</p><p>2017 £4,198,893.32</p><p>2018
£3,720,373.41</p><p> </p><p>These are the costs of representation for the Ministry
of Justice, Her Majesty's Prison &amp; Probation Service and the Youth Justice Board,
and for their staff. In the vast majority of cases the legal representatives are acting
for both the body and all members of its staff called as witnesses, and the respective
costs cannot therefore be separated. In a very small number of cases separate representation
is provided for one or more members of staff.</p><p> </p><p>The costs of representation
for contracted prisons and their staff are met by the provider. Before the National
Probation Service was created in April 2014 each Probation Trust met its own representation
costs, and since then each Community Rehabilitation Company has done likewise. In
addition, in 2009 and 2010 £17,770.07 was incurred on representation for prison Independent
Monitoring Boards.</p>

<p>The information requested is not held centrally. We do not ask schools to collect
this information, and we do not hold any estimate.</p><p>I refer the hon. Member for
Cardiff Central to the answer I gave on 2 April 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-28/238408/"
target="_blank">238408</a>.</p><p>This year we are more than quadrupling investment
in our holiday activities and food programme to £9.1 million. We estimate that around
50,000 children will benefit from being offered high quality free holiday provision
this summer. This will deliver free healthy food and activities to disadvantaged children
and families.</p>

<p>The Home Office does not the hold the specific information requested in a reportable
format. The department undertakes a wide range of enforcement action. This action
includes application of sanctions against individuals and employers, prosecution of
foreign national criminals, the disruption of serious and organised crime as well
as our work to encourage and enforce the return of those who have no legal right to
stay in the UK. The department does publish information on returns. Published returns
figures only include those who have been removed not all of those who were subject
to immigration enforcement action.</p><p>The Home Office publishes the number of returns
from the UK, by year in table rt_01 (returns data tables, volume 1) in ‘Immigration
Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the GOV.uk website at: <br><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803173/returns1-mar-2019-tables.ods."
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803173/returns1-mar-2019-tables.ods.</a></p><p>Further
information about Immigration Enforcement activity is available at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-may-2019"
target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-may-2019</a></p><p>As
detailed at paragraph 5 in the published information linked above; The Home Office
is proposing to review the enforcement data that it publishes in order to ensure it
provides a comprehensive overview of the detention and returns system. This will involve
a consultation in 2019, where it will invite public views on its proposals.</p>

<p>The 2018 amendments to the non-contentious probate rules enabled personal applications
to be submitted online. This service is assessed through a range of measures, such
as user feedback and user satisfaction. Of 4,995 responses from users who submitted
their application online 93% indicated from five feedback options that they were satisfied
or very satisfied with the online application service provided. The online system
is being continually improved and developed as a result of the feedback provided.</p>

<p>HM Treasury has allocated over £4.2 billion of funding for all exit scenarios since
2016.</p><p>However, given the significant overlap of work across scenarios, the Department
does not record costs against specific scenarios. The Department does not therefore
hold this information.</p><p> </p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department has (a) prepared,
(b) commissioned, (c) collaborated on and (d) awareness of any quantitative future
projections that show that any form of leaving the EU will be directly beneficial
either in terms of improving (i) GVA in Wales, (ii) Welsh GDP growth, (iii) direct
foreign investment in Wales and (iv) the quantity or value of Welsh goods and services
that are exported from the Welsh economy.

<p>In November last year, the UK Government published economic analysis of EU exit
under different scenarios, bringing together evidence from across government. This
analysis found that under the modelled White Paper scenario there may be a very small
effect on the economy over a long period of time, with Welsh GVA estimated to be 0.1%
lower compared to today’s arrangements.</p><p>This estimate does not include impact
of domestic policies such as our Modern Industrial Strategy and the opportunities
arising from additional regulatory flexibility, and these domestic policies can drive
growth and productivity in Wales going forwards.</p>